December 2011
45 posts
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– GK Chesterson
featherlightheart asked: your interpretation of biblical texts in correspondence with modern social issues is really great. especially your consideration to the world behind the text and the world in front of the text and how we forget the HUGE differences between the two, and the difficulty in understanding one from the perspective of the other. i'm a religious studies/social justice double major, and i wrestle with...
meteorshowr asked: I have struggled for quite sometime with what I believe when it comes to homosexuality and their rights. In the bible, new and old testament, it says that homosexuality is a sin. But I want homosexuals to have the same rights as heteros, because we are all human and deserve it. I have friends who are gay and I would love for them to one day get married. And then as far as the "lifestyle"...
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It's over, and I'm so very happy.
And this is the command: love you neighbor as yourself and love God with all of your heart mind and soul
Hate gays, close the borders and deny choice
Slaughter thy enemy and deny their voice
Make millions and give ten percent of it away
Buy the flash, the glits the glam, the cars, the boat, the house encircled by a moat
Do it all and do it for the lord, for God is a man who offers hope
Build giant...
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In my church community I have discovered a faith that is healthy, cooperative, inclusive and artistic. A faith that is hospitable to the poor, speaks truth to power, and sets the table of communion for all. A faith that chases down, wrestles with and is empowered by the provacative Spirit of God. A faith that’s vision of wholeness and beauty is not stopped until every belly is full, every spirit...
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster
(via cultureofresistance)
“Happy Birthday to a radical, nonviolent, anti-death penalty, anti-public prayer,...”
– John Fugelsang
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– Maya Angelou
“Yesterday you said tomorrow.”
A literal reading of the BIble means the reinstitution of slavery coupled with the understanding that the slave master has the right to beat their slave without mercy since “the slave is his money” (Exodus 21:12). Children who strike or curse a parent are to be executed (Exodus 21:15,17). Those who pay homage to another god “shall be utterly destroyed” (Exodus 22:20)....
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Our understanding that religon-based LGBTQ discrimination comes out of a history of patriarchy in the church.
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“God does not coerce the world, but rather attempts at persuading the world through God’s patient and loving call. Humans then have the freedom in each moment of their lives to respond to God’s call or not. The reason process thinking is able to present this altered understanding of divine power is because it see’s God’s power as necessarily limited (not self-limited, but inherently...
“We need a new vision for discipleship, one that is devoid of church growth conversations, business structures, and silver bullet programs…It is the overlapping and intertwining of personal stories. It is the sacred breathe shared with each other as we journey through life together. It is the inter-generational exchange that happens whether intentionally or non-intentionally through...
Michael Moore talks about the Occupy Movement: “How Great! People are finally saying to the banks and Wall Street: We are sick and tired of you running our congress, running our country; we want our country back. I think this is a great moment right now in our history. There is a structure [to the Occupy Movement] but instead of being vertical where there is some charismatic leader at the top that...
“The Occupy movement is the force that will revitalize traditional Christianity...”
– Chris Hedges
Anonymous asked: Is your current faith community gay affirming?
The moment your view of Divine sovereignty turns God into a supernatural Hitler, you might want to re-think a few things.
A few reasons some of us have left Evangelicalism...
1. I’m allergic to contempary Christian music. 2. I never believed in the inerrancy of the Bible (and think it’s rather obvious it’s not inerrant) and got tired of hiding that fact. 3. I realized biblicism (the notion that the Bible is infallible, internally consistent, universally applicable, contains all the truth we need, and makes us certain about most everything) is intellectually hallow...
“Count the liberal mayor of Los Angeles, a man I have respected and voted for, as...”
– Robert Scheer 